Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18

evidence l would have let the verdict
stand and required new trial. l never
pardoned the defendants. | don't
know whether Nelson was tried
in his absence or not. If
he had been found guilty in his absence,
l would let the verdict stand. When 8
case was called, the District Attorney and
the defendants attorney went out and
made an agreement and came into court
aud stated it, end don't know whether
the defendants were with them when the
agreements were made or not. l never
warned them that such an agreement was
being made. | don't know whether the
same jury was used in every case or not.
| remember the Jury came in once and the
clerk read the verdict of guilty to scare
Brown, and it created some amusement
in the court room and the foreman Jump
ed up and said if it read that way he
did not intend to write it
to read guilty. jest be-
fore this Jury came into the courtroom
the Clerk said ne was going to read the
verdict that way to scare Brown. Before
this term of court had objected to Mr..
WoOdmGn, The District Attorney. receiv-
ing salary from the Cattlemen. l knew
it was in violation of the law | talked
to some of the lawyers about it and think
it caused Mr.. WOOdman to be unfriendly
with me. l have heard lately that the
Sheriff also was receiving salary Of
$1,000 from the Cattle Association of
which Mr.. Goodnight is President, and G..
A. Brown, Fice-President. District At
torney Woodman was the paid attorney
of this association. l told Mr..
Goodnight to give his cow
boys deed to small
tract OF land so that they could become
lega. jurymen, as We had a great deal of
trouble to be able to get enough jurYmen
at any term Of court. l told the grand
Jury at Mobeetie last fall that | thought
the land inclosure act was hard to inforce,
but il was their duty to inforce all laws.
| told Mr.. WoOdman at the July term that
he ought to dismiss the remaining land
Enclosure cases, that ne could not con-
vict, but Woodman said the Attorney
General demanded it. did let some of
the cases be tried without the presence CT
the defendants, and would nave let the
verdict stand if the Jury had found
them guilty. have heard
that the District Attorney went
to the Commissioners court and asked
for clerks to help dlaw up the indict-
mentJ as there were too many for one
man to draw up. and | think the clerks
were furnished him.
The Attorney General then submitted
all the documentary evidence in the case
consisting Of copies of the indictments
and judgments against all who were
tried tor q violation of the illegal in
closure act in Judge Willis court. The
judgments were in regular form, reciting
that the evidence had been heard by the
jury.
Frank Daniels was the next witness. |
He was juror On G. A. Browns case.
He said he heard no Juror sworn and had
no evidence to act on except the
lawyers statements. Before the term
of the court it had been
the general talk that all the cattlemen
would be indicted for illegal Enclosure of
lands. l never saw a court run like this
one before. No witnesses were put on
the stand, ana men who were indicted
for the same Offense sat on the juries. l
saw Judge Willis several times in G
gambling room where they We're playing
poker, stud-hOrse poker, faro and other |
games. 1t was during mis- term at court. |
He said it was generally talked that |
Judge Willis was influenced by the cat |
tlemen. But on crosse examination he |
only mentioned one man by the name of !
Kilgore, but he said it was the general !
talk. The committee continued the in |
vestigatiOn to q late hour tonight.
SEED FOR TEXAS.
Governor Ross has received the follow
ing telegram from Norman J. COlman,
Commissioner of Agriculture at Washing /
ton, relative to the distribution of the |
seed appropriated by Mr.. Lanham's bill:
Governo l.. 5. Ross, Austin, Tex.
Your telegram received. The more l
think of it, the more fesi the importance |
Of having some central station for the re-
CeptiOn of the seed and distribution from
that point. The seed wi be taken from |
st. Louis by through train tn t will not
stop to distribute on the way. From the |
central station the seed can be Distributed |
by local trains, by an agent Sc
lected by the parties interested, to the
points desired. Corn, oats and wheat |
will be sen. in sacks, and each |
county will be entitled to 7
a certain proportion CT these sacks, so |
that there will be but little trouble in the /
distribution. AS ut present advised, !
there vii beno garden or vegetable seeds |
sent by the department, as l have had no |
cali from any party for them. l Will, !
however, distribute from here by mail |
for the county Judges GbOut 100 bushels !
of early seed corn in half |
pint packages, and they can distribute
them as they see proper. l have made all |
the arrangements possible for the purchase |
of seed at st. Louis, and as soon as the !
bill IS signed | will close the contract for |
it. Please give me the name of the sta
ton for consignment"
Governor Ross to-day sent the follow |
ing reply:
To Norman Colman, Commissioner of Agricul- !
Consult the list already furnished
you, and make your apportional |
distribution therefrom. Cause each |
sack to be marked plainly |
as to the county it belongs to-
Ship by the Missouri Pacifc Railroad in
bulk Consigned to me at Fort Worth. |
Let an invoice of the con |
tents accompany each car, then |
send duplicate invoice setting forth |
the number and marks on each package |
to me here. For the appointments to the
various counties please seek advice from
Representative Lanham in connection
with the list before referred to- Please
answer with your views on the re ceipt of
this. The railroad authorities desire to
make arrangements as they have agreed
to ship free of charge. -
Signed, L S. Ross, Gov, T1er.
Mr.. A. Fueser, SOC Walnut street, St.
Louis, Mo-, suhsred for two years with
lumbago, and wascoAfled to his bed for
several months. RRsYas entirely cured
by the use of St. Bcsg's Oil, which he